Eight journalists who covered the farmer protests in India and violence in Delhi on January 26, 2021 are facing baseless criminal charges, Human Rights Watch said today.

The army said the allegation was 'completely baseless' and that 'the boy was not detained or tortured in any manner'

Currently, impunity is the norm.

“The number you have called has been temporarily disconnected,” is the message I hear every time I dial my friend’s phone in Srinagar. My friend remains unreachable for the 21st day on Monday.

Authorities in Indian Kashmir have arrested nearly 4,000 people since the scrapping of its special status last month, government data shows, the most clear evidence yet of the scale of one of the...

Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League party are seeking a fourth consecutive term and are accused of harassing the rival BNP party

Myanmar's leader says the conviction of the Reuters pair had nothing to do with freedom of expression.

Pakistan’s human rights minister, Shireen M. Mazari, recently spoke of her government’s commitment to advancing human rights for all Pakistani citizens. 

The Bangladesh government should immediately allow hundreds of Rohingya refugees stranded in two trawlers in the Bay of Bengal to come ashore and receive necessary food, water, and health care.

The government of Bangladesh is blocking aid groups from providing any meaningful education to Rohingya children in refugee camps and banning the children from attending schools outside the camps....

The crackdown against the opposition in #Bangladesh should be ringing alarm bells internationally that January’s elections will not be free and fair. Read @astroehlein’s Daily Brief:

Bangladesh authorities are targeting opposition leaders and supporters ahead of the general elections slated for January 7, 2024.

Irfan Amin Malik, a journalist with Greater Kashmir, was picked up by security forces at around 11 pm on Wednesday.

Indian authorities should immediately release detained Kashmiris who have not been charged with a recognizable offense.

Bangladesh police indiscriminately fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons, and beat opposition party supporters with batons during protests in late July 2023.

Categorised as an unnatural offence, consensual sexual intercourse between persons of same-sex is termed ‘against the order of nature’ under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and can be...

Yet again, last week, people around the world had to contemplate the possibility that India and Pakistan’s seemingly unending scrap over Kashmir could lead to nuclear conflagration.

The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, named after the late member of the US House of Representatives, has convened the hearing to look at the rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir in “historical...

After ten years of relentless judicial harassment, Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, two prominent human rights defenders in Bangladesh, (…)

It has been over two months since the Indian government revoked constitutional autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir and split the state into two centrally administered territories. And yet abusive restric...

Retired generals insist that this is standard procedure since militant bodies are often booby trapped.

Twinkle Khanna & Arunachalam Muruganantham talk about Menstruation- the tax, the taboo, the lack of access to basic hygiene, the fact that 20% girls drop out...

Police in Uttar Pradesh state have embarked on ‘reign of terror’ against Muslims in wake of new citizenship law

This is an opportunity for the Modi government to accept its failing and end communal bias.

Addressing human rights is the first step towards ending the cycle of violence.

Bangladesh's elite counterterrorism force is committing extrajudicial killings, DW and Netra News reveal in a new investigation. High-ranking officials are approving the executions, according to...

The state commissions have been ordered shut despite the fact that many Union Territories have equivalent bodies.

Bangladesh authorities should immediately release the human rights defenders Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, quash their convictions, and end all reprisals against them and other human...

If soldiers and officers who abuse their authority are properly punished instead of being praised and rewarded, perhaps it will help those contemplating violence to believe in justice instead.

At least 180 ethnic Rohingya stranded at sea for weeks after leaving Bangladesh in November are feared dead, as their rickety boat is thought to have sunk this month, the United Nations refugee...

Instead of prosecuting those responsible for unlawfully attacking student protesters demanding road safety, Bangladesh authorities are arresting students and targeting activists and journalists who...